~ PUUR's mission is to share the General History of Africa written by UNESCO to help Blacks reclaim their cultural identity; rectify the ignorance propagated by white writers, the slave trade, and colonization; counter the affects of forced assimilation / acculturation; and promote an African perspective with which to analyse current events. This ‘new’ history of Africa is mentally, emotionally, and psychologically transformative as, for example, it was for Detroit Red who emerged Malcolm X after learning his African history. Once intellectually ingested, like miracle substance, Blacks and non-white people of color are equipped to counter, neutralize, and abrogate the system or racism/white supremacy…once and for all.
Trump has normalized the term.I heard it 1st in the 1980’s from, the late, Dr. Frances Welsing and each time I attended her free lectures at the Blackburn Center the 2nd Thursday of the month until 2015…that’s 30 years…she taught it…I learned it.
I, therefore, talked and taught it to my family, friends, anybody who’d listen…though, most wouldn’t.
But now, my 24 year old granddaughter, Kiara, knows the term and understands, peripherally, what it means…now that it’s all over the media.
Because I think it so incredibly important that she and we understand racism/white supremacy, I’m glad the media has normalized the term because now…we can have ‘the conversation’ about racism/white supremacy which is only possible if we agree it exist. Now, my granddaughter and I can discuss it, whereas, pre-Trump, we couldn’t because she didn’t believe me..that racism/white supremacy existed, is an ever present problem for African Americans, especially, it affects every aspect of her life, and she, therefore, needs to understand it explicitly.
And, despite the push back against ‘us’, people of color exploring the concept, see Dr. Frances Cress Welsing and most recently, Jemele Hill,
it’s my professional opinion that we, people of color, African Americans, in particular, need to be ‘the experts’ on concept. Why, for the same reason my granddaughter needs to understand it. It’s like hypertension, diabetes, post traumatic stress or depression…we can best manage, neutralize, cure what is harmful to us by understanding it and degree to which we understand it is the degree to which we can control it’s effects.
Call to action…Joe Madison, the Black Eagle on 126 Sirius Radio always asks his callers, what’re you going to do about it?
My answer, I’m going to use this blog to have ‘the conversation’, a global exploration, examination, research forum of racism/white supremacy. Why global, because globally, the majority of people are people of color all of whom are victimized by racism/white supremacy (r/w) in exactly the same way, though we don’t know it. How, well, think about it, wherever Europeans have encountered people of color, they have what they do, employed, instituted, set up their system of r/w.
So, if you’re interested in participating, and I hope you are, let me 1st introduce you to the person who introduced me to the concept, Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, google her Youtube videos.
I like providing at least 2, preferably 3 sources on an issue / topic your review, so, I’m adding the 1st page of Anthropologist, George Balandiers’ article, “The Colonial Situation: A Theoretical Approach (1951)”, which explains the European “…expansion throughout the entire world…” subjugating “and in some instances…” exterminating “…virtually every people regarded as backward, archaic, or primitive.” Eventually, I will try to provide a not only a better copy but the entire article, also.
Note: If anyone knows the title of the book this article appeared in please share it.
In the years leading up to her death, scholar-warrior Frances Cress Welsing, with the help of friends and colleagues, fought tooth and nail against the very forces she described in her 1991 book The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors.
That battle, however, would prove to be futile.
Welsing’s confidants say exploitative lawyers and timid power brokers in the D.C. Zoning Commission foiled her attempts to stop what has been described as the Jewish Primary Day School’s encroachment on her property. For years, high noise levels emanating from the private school’s playground rattled the 80-year-old psychiatrist, possibly causing the stroke that landed her in MedStar Washington Hospital Center on New Year’s Eve.
The news of Welsing’s Jan. 2 death shocked many who recounted seeing a clear-thinking, vibrant and mobile elder during public appearances locally and across the country months earlier. Such a healthy disposition, even in the scholar’s last moments, didn’t surprise Januwa Moja, a nationally renowned artist and Welsing’s close friend of 40 years who recalled often seeing her face light up during discussions about racism.
(L-R) Nana Malaya Rucker and Moja present an artistic work inspired by Dr. Welsing at a memorial service on Jan. 14/ Photo by AllEyesOnDC
“Dr. Welsing was for us as a people 24/7. Her first priority was her patients, then the Welsing Institute,” Moja told AllEyesOnDC, referring to the three-hour long sessions Welsing held in Howard University’s Blackburn Center in Northwest on the second Thursday of each month between September and May of the academic year.“Once she prepared for her patients, she would prepare for the session on the second Thursday. She was speaking everywhere and always hopping on planes. During those times, she was traveling by herself. In her 80s, she kept it moving, working on our behalf and elevating our consciousness. She read almost everything that had to do with our people,” Moja added.
Welsing, a Chicago-born alumna of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio and Howard, rose in notoriety during the 1970s and 1980s after she defined racism as a global white supremacist system built out of a white minority’s fear of genetic annihilation. She reached this conclusion after hearing Neely Fuller, author of United Independent Compensatory Code System Concept, mention such a perspective. That encounter inspired her to find out why white people have acted in this manner historically.
In The Isis Papers, Welsing postulated that people of color, especially those with darker shades of melanin, are targeted in nine major areas of activity including politics, law, entertainment, labor, sex, and war. Her premier work included a collection of essays penned over the course of more than 20 years. For many, Welsing’s scholarship made sense of the mental issues black people continued to endure one generation after Jim Crow. It also inspired Public Enemy’s album Fear of a Black Planet, introducing her to legions of young people.
In the decades since she developed what’s known as the Theory of Color Confrontation, Welsing has unflinchingly defended her position to white and black detractors alike, contending that back people’s failure to understand the totality of racism impedes progress and maintains the status quo. In 1973, she debated Dr. William Shockley, physicist and proponent of eugenics, debunking most of his points and pushing him into abject obscurity.
The Millennial generation became familiar with Welsing’s work after her appearance in the Hidden Colors documentary series. In recent years, they counted among a significant number of people in the audience during her lectures across the country.
“She had this infectious energy and came ready to deliver this message about white supremacy and racism,” Millennial singer, rapper, and songwriter Jeni Calhoun, told AllEyesOnDC. Last August, she met Welsing during a lecture at Fisk University in Nashville during which the warrior-scholar signed a copy of The Isis Papers.
Lorne Cress Love, Dr. Welsing’s older sister and WPFW stalwart, spoke before more than 200 people about the late warrior-scholar on Jan. 14th/ Photo by AllEyesOnDC
“The first time I came across The Isis Papers, I wasn’t ready for the knowledge,” said Calhoun, an employee of Jazzy 88.1 WFSK, located on Fisk’s campus. “Now that I’ve come back to it, it has a different message because I have a higher level of consciousness. I love how Dr. Welsing always broke down stuff and showed us how racism affects us on all fronts. I see all of the propaganda and things they’re doing to keep us enslaved in this system.”After Welsing succumbed to complications from her stroke, students and fans took to social media to mourn who they considered a legend and staunch advocate for black people. A multigenerational gathering of more than 200 community members took place at the Blackburn Center earlier this month in place of Welsing Institute. That evening, guests poured libations, told stories about the late Welsing, watched YouTube videos of her interviews, and purchased copies of The Isis Papers.
Two more events, a 40-day ascension ceremony and memorial service, are scheduled for February and March respectively. Despite minimal acknowledgment of Welsing’s work by the mainstream establishment, her influence among those who consider themselves “conscious” remains strong, making a large turnout at future events a strong possibility.
“If she was white, Dr. Welsing’s passing would be on the front page of the New York Times and all over CNN,” Dr. Gregory Carr, chair of Afro-American studies at Howard, told AllEyesOnDC. “The critique of whiteness has become so vogue but it’s something she and Neely Fuller pioneered. With The Cress Theory, Dr. Welsing was attempting to answer the call for a social science paradigm to analyze racism. That’s why she identifies as one of the great theoreticians of the 20thCentury.”
Carr, critical of how social media diminished young people’s will to read and organize interpersonally, said that youth could best honor Welsing by eradicating the white supremacist system methodically, not only in times of tragedy. “Organizing is based on collective study and work. That’s what Dr. Welsing often talked about,” Carr said. “There was always a mix of talking and work but that’s all it is now. What we have to do now is commit ourselves to real time organizing and building between generations.”
Technology enthusiast and podcaster Big Baba Rob shared Carr’s sentiments, telling AllEyesOnDC that he wants to honor her memory by acting in the manner she often encouraged her audience to exemplify: respectful of one another.
“Dr. Welsing wanted us to be smarter and act better as a people,” said Big Baba Rob, 42. “She wanted us to be aware and fight. Her lectures and book analyze where we are as human beings. We have to educate ourselves. We’re being dumbed down and things are setting us up for failure. That’s why we must continue to fight.”
Select Heroes Who Fight & Die For The Benefit Of Black People, Malcolm Says…
Dr. Asa Hilliard, Educational Psychologist, Proponent of Afrocentric Education; Portland, Oregon school system adopted his Afrocentric baseline essays in 1989
Att. Johnny Chronoran
Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba.
Frances Welsing
[On being asked if he did not think it important for the new Black generation to know about the slave revolts in America and people like Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass:]
Malcolm: Yes, it’s important, but it’s even more important for us to be reestablished want connected to our roots. Douglass was great. I would rather have been taught about Toussaint L’Ouverture. We need to be taught about people who fought, who bled for freedom and made others bleed.
Questioner: The first guy that was shot at the moment of the Independence War was a Negro.
Malcolm: He wasn’t shot for Negroes. He was shot for America. I don’t want to take away from Crispus Attucks, but he was shoot. He was a slave. His people were slaves.
Questioner: He was a slave perhaps. But not on his knees—on his feet.
Malcolm: Sir, you can take a dog—a big, vicious dog—and sic him on somebody else and he’s fearless. I’d like to give you an example. No matter how fearless a dog is, you catch him out on the street, stamp hour foot—he’ll run because you’re only threatening him. His master has never trained him how to defend himself. But that same dog, if you walk through the master’s gate, will growl and bite. Why will he growl and bite over there and not growl and bite over here? Over there he’s growling and biting for the defense of his master and the benefit of his master, but when his own interests are threatened he has no growl.
Not only Cispus Attucks, but many of us in America have died defending America. We defend our master. We’re the most violent soldiers America has when she sends us to Korea or to the South Pacific or to Siagon, but when our mothers and our own property are being attacked we’re nonviolent. Crispus Attucks laid down his life for America but would he have laid down his life to stop the white man in America from enslaving Black people?
So when you select heroes about which Black people ought to be taught, let them be Black heroes who have died fighting for the benefit of Black people. We never were taught about Christophe or Dessalines. It was the slave revolt in Haiti when slaves, Black slaves, had the soldiers of Napoleon tied down and forced him to sell one-half of the American continent to the Americans. They don’t teach us that. This is the kind of history we want to learn.
Pathfinder, Malcolm X On Afro-American History, 2014, pgs 89-90.
This Was One Of My 1st Post…”Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children”…The Words of Malcolm X…So…?
I was encouraging people to go hear Frances, to just be in her presence. I’m encouraging us to education our children about themselves…and to take them to be in the presence of our elders, Tony Browder, Edwin Nichols, Patricia Newton, El Senzengakulu Zulu, Shirikiana Gerima, Haile Gerima, Molefi Kete Asante…most are local…
The Blackest Thurdays In The City…Deanwood Black Studies Class Thursday’s 6:30 PM @ Deanwood Recreation Center, NW, DC
The Story of Dr. El Senzengakulu Zulu Founder & Director of Ujamaa School Father of Independent Afrikan Schools in the USA 1554 8th St., N.W.
I’m Appalled…Killer Still At Large…”System of Racism/White Supremacy”
#endracismwhitesupremacy
Guest on Malissa Harris-Perry Show this morning say, ‘the perpetrator has been caught, but the killer’s still at large’…
The killer ranges FROM those who contributed to the $700,000, especially, poor whites TO the ultra wealthy whites, like the politicians Hilliary and Jeb Bush, who won’t make ‘the killer’ ‘a’ or ‘the’ campaign issue of 2016 with the goal: to eradicate the “killer at large” … ‘racism/white supremacy’…once and for all.
Frances Welsing said, Blacks need to give whites the homework assignment…to publicly admit and make the eradication ‘the system of racism/white supremacy’ THEIR TASK…until done.
Following her advice, I, personally, charge white people with the responsibility of eradicating the ‘system of racism/white supremacy’…once and for all.
REAL…African American Experts On African American Culture & People
Some of them may have actually interacted with Dubois’, Malcolm’s, KwAme Nkrumah’s, Carter G. Woodson’s but surly did Diop, John H. Clarke, etc.
My point, like white America, we need to develop our own criteria for who are our ‘experts’ based upon their history. Rachel D , dispite her ‘Toxic Charity’ attempts of helping, she doesn’t qualify to enter the room with ‘our’ experts like PTricia Newton, Dick Gregory, Tony Browder, France’s Welsing, Claude Anderson, or Umar Johnson.
…come see them for yourself, this Saturday, at Union Temple Baptist Chruch…1225 W. St., SE, DC. Sat Jun 20th 1-6 PM
Dr. Patricia A. Newton…coined term, Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder (youtube). She graduated from the Washington University School of Medicine in 1975. She works in Baltimore, MD and specializes in Psychiatry and Public Health & General Preventive Medicine. Dr. Newton is affiliated with Greater Baltimore Medical Center.
His name speaks for itself
Anthony (Tony) Browder
Frances Cress Welsing, is an afrocentrist fringe psychiatrist who with her 1970 essay: the Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism, offered her interpretation on the origins of white supremacy culture in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Claud Anderson is president of PowerNomics Corporation of America, Inc. and The Harvest Institute. PowerNomics is a package of principles and strategies that explain “race” and offer a guide for Black America to become a more self-sufficient and economically competitive group in America.
…youngest of the group but mentored by ‘our’ elders….
If She Applied For The Job Along With’The Rest Of U’s, Who’d Get It?
She’s an expert on African-American culture, didn’t she know about ‘white’ or ‘light’skin privilege and ‘colorism’? Didn’t she know ‘white skin privilege’ would get her the job? Or, didn’t she care?
And, worse, she’s said to be an ‘academic expert on African-American culture’…well, compared to whom?
The PREEMINENT African American scholars on Africa, Ancient African Culture and African Americans, etc. like the following…to name a few…who I have never seen referred to as an ‘academic expert on African-American culture’. Why? CULTURAL GENOCIDE???
And, finally, where is her research…her academic papers? …the audacity of her and the NAACP… who should know who the experts are on African American culture? But, since they obviously don’t…see the following:
Carter Godwin Woodson was an African-American historian, author, journalist and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Woodson was one of the first scholars to study African-American history.
Chancellor James Williams was an African-American sociologist, historian and writer. He is noted for his work on African civilizations prior to encounters with Europeans; his major work is The Destruction of Black Civilization.
Cheikh Anta Diop
John Henrik Clarke, was a Pan-Africanist writer, historian, professor, and a pioneer in the creation of Africana studies and professional institutions in academia starting in the late 1960s.
Dr. Patricia A. Newton…coined term, Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder (youtube). She graduated from the Washington University School of Medicine in 1975. She works in Baltimore, MD and specializes in Psychiatry and Public Health & General Preventive Medicine. Dr. Newton is affiliated with Greater Baltimore Medical Center.
Anthony (Tony) Browder
Dr. Asa G. Hilliard III
Molefi Kete Asante
Frances Cress Welsing, is an afrocentrist fringe psychiatrist who with her 1970 essay: the Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism, offered her interpretation on the origins of white supremacy culture in Washington, D.C.
